Quite obvious that using BCA's fleet of subcontract transporters is the best solution, and fairly priced.

Depending on the situation of your home address, make sure the approaches to your place are navigable, large enough roads with some sort of access without low bridges but especially trees, bridges are height marked, tree branches are not, your car won't be the only one on the truck which will be up to 16ft high fully loaded...even if it's not your car on top it will be someone's so give them a suitable destination address and contact numbers.

Will you try Mannheim at Bristol too.

Do be careful if you buy a car trailer. I saw a guy getting very out of shape and ultimately crashing while towing one with another car. He was quite carefully negotiating a steepish downhill corner in the rain. His towing car simply couldn't take the bend with all that weight behind it. Stuffed it into a wall.

Go steady. Oh, good luck with the mini-business by the way. Hope it works for you.

Also, technically, if you are moving the car for business purposes technically you need a full tacograph, time sheets etc. And yes, sometimes the Police do check.

You also need a substancial towing car - cars weigh a lot these days and combined with a trailer it is very easy to get to 3-4 tonne GTW.

You'll also be over the B licence group towing limit (3500kg Gross Train Weight) so you'll need B+E which will mean passing a towing test if you passed your car driving test after 1997.

If you're under the 3500 GTW limit you won't need a tacho even if it's business.

There is a significant difference. You used to need to buy at least 12 cars in a 12 month period to qualify for the business buyers fee and it got reduced again if you went over the 100 mark. The lowest fees are offered to those who buy 500 or more in a year.

They are forever changing it. To qualify as a "trade" buyer and get the V5 whole you need to at least show some trade insurance and possibly other evidence of trade status such as trade plates, VAT number etc. Otherwise they insist on registering the car in your name and you'll have to wait 2-6 weeks before you get the logbook and can sell it.

Car buying and selling is no different to any other business - you need the correct insurance, accounts, VAT status, trade accounts etc. to do it anything like properly. Treat it like a proper business and you'll probably do OK, do it without the right things in place and it'll be a messy disaster waiting to happen.